Press

The New York Times
For Rare Book Librarians, It’s Gloves Off. Seriously.

“Allie Alvis, a rare book cataloger and book historian who posts on social media as Book Historia, got so tired of responding to indignant comments about gloves that she created a smartphone shortcut to instantly generate her (tactful) three-sentence explanation. “I found myself having to type it out five or six times a day,” she said.
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New York Social Diary
Learning from Experience

“There was also the very popular — standing room only — panel on careers in rare books with Allie Alvis, Curator of Special Collections at the Winterthur Library.”
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PackagingDive
How the Global Gift Wrap Market Got Its Start

“In [The Puritan’s] ‘Ins and Outs of Housekeeping’ we read: ’In this day of pretty flowered boxes, ribbons and colored papers there is no excuse for a slouchy, ragged uninviting Christmas parcel,’” said Alvis.
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Maniculum Podcast

“Poison Books and Magical Libraries with Rare Book Historian Allie Alvis!”
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Washington Post
Smithsonian exhibit digs out the ‘nature’ in old books

The Nature of the Book is “an offbeat history of books, focusing on long-ago artisans’ use of natural items.” | Science
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Inside My Favorite Manuscript Podcast

“Allie Alvis on Bindings, Tattoos, and Cute Little Guys”
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Washington Post

“‘Bite Sized Book History’ is equally charming and cerebral.” | The Washington Post Book Club
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CBC Radio

“Bright green books from the 19th century may contain a hidden danger — arsenic”
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Love What You Love Podcast

Rare Books with Allie Alvis
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AbeBooks

Book Historia | Behind the Bookshelves podcast
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Kottke

The Proper Way to Organize Bookshelves? | Ride Home podcast
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Fine Books Magazine

Bright Young Librarians: Allie Alvis
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Bidsquare

Allie Alvis on Being a Book Historian at the Smithsonian
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JStor Daily

Some Books Can Kill
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DR (Danmarks Radio)

Flere giftige bøger dukker op (Several Toxic Books are Found)
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